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bobo's bk is "wage theft in america." this is part of the annual printers fear lit fest. >> i'm just a moderator, and the moderator is supposed to modete and, peopleumb, but i don't think that's it will be easy to call people mb once-ler to spears and authors prent the thes of the book and their arguments. came in bobo is kind of the jane addams of chicago. she is the head of the national inrfaith coalition for worker justice. in your bk, "wage theftn americ" how millions, why millions of working americans are not getting paid and what we can do about i is already a success. it is not an ordinary book. it ialready become a politilly that. people are around the country on talk radio sws and clubs and organizations and unions have become energized by this book which isbo how people, like the kind ofeople barbara ehrenreich wrote about in nicked and times are being ripped o. our cond author, jon jeter, i hope ironounced that right, "flat broke in the fe market," is a remarkablriter, a journalist with "the wasngton post" and
bobo's bk is "wage theft in america." this is part of the annual printers fear lit fest. >> i'm just a moderator, and the moderator is supposed to modete and, peopleumb, but i don't think that's it will be easy to call people mb once-ler to spears and authors prent the thes of the book and their arguments. came in bobo is kind of the jane addams of chicago. she is the head of the national inrfaith coalition for worker justice. in your bk, "wage theftn americ" how...
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middle class folks did not get their fair share of the last two expansions in america. the president and i are determined that when we come out of this recession and we will i guarantee you -- [applause] when we come out we do not want people who left behind. from 2000, 22007 productivity in america grew by 20% to get the average middle class american had a net loss of 3%. ladies and gentlemen, that wasn't the deal we made. society made a deal in the 20th century. those who are responsible for the increase of productivity are entitled to a piece of the action. [applause] and ladies and gentlemen, it didn't happen. so we know we have to build an economy not built on dot com double or housing double but built on a firm foundation, not on pieces of paper being shuttled between wall street skyscrapers. so folks, that is what we focused on, the places where the new jobs will be the new green jobs and modern jobs. we focused on over $7 billion in broadband and smart great high-speed rail, healthcare i.t., a renewable energy, the economy of the future. remember the time we put
middle class folks did not get their fair share of the last two expansions in america. the president and i are determined that when we come out of this recession and we will i guarantee you -- [applause] when we come out we do not want people who left behind. from 2000, 22007 productivity in america grew by 20% to get the average middle class american had a net loss of 3%. ladies and gentlemen, that wasn't the deal we made. society made a deal in the 20th century. those who are responsible for...
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Aug 13, 2009
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>> in america, there is absolutely no shortcuts in democracy. those who believe the most and the longest prevail. i think in august, i think three things, speak out in your own district, not just to me, but to our senator as well. i know they feel the same way. but speak out. secondly, reach out to your friends and family and co-workers who are in the other congressional districts and encourage to get to town hall meetings themselves. pick up the phone, e mail and ask them to question their lawmakers about the bill. and then finally, don't quit. don't quit speaking out and reaching out until this is done and a new opportunity is made available. there are some great solutions. this doesn't have to be it. >> should we go to washington enmasse? >> it would be better to drive over with a neighbor who is in another district or friend or family in another district and talk to another member of congress, because at the end of the day, members of congress represent their communities, their neighborhoods. that's who they want to hear from. again, the whi
>> in america, there is absolutely no shortcuts in democracy. those who believe the most and the longest prevail. i think in august, i think three things, speak out in your own district, not just to me, but to our senator as well. i know they feel the same way. but speak out. secondly, reach out to your friends and family and co-workers who are in the other congressional districts and encourage to get to town hall meetings themselves. pick up the phone, e mail and ask them to question...
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this is incredible in the united states of america. the people in this room want their country back. [cheers and applause] if you ever heard nothing today, please understand that, and i would ask what you have learned today from this town hall meeting that you will take back to washington. >> you ask two questions. i'll take a look at the practice which the white house is asking, to identify people or opposed to though white house's health care. i'll take a look. what have i learned from today's meeting? that this is a very well informed part of our citizenry. we have had the quotations on the bill repeatedly, which shows that there has been a lot of study on the house bill. you have raised a number of provisions which impressed me. but, no, -- you know what is going on. i have a very good idea of the temper of a crowd. i saw a standing ovation to return america to the constitution. it is more than an earful. and i am not surprised. i have been a lot of town meetings, had hundreds of them during the course of my tenure in the senate an
this is incredible in the united states of america. the people in this room want their country back. [cheers and applause] if you ever heard nothing today, please understand that, and i would ask what you have learned today from this town hall meeting that you will take back to washington. >> you ask two questions. i'll take a look at the practice which the white house is asking, to identify people or opposed to though white house's health care. i'll take a look. what have i learned from...
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so the occupational mix of fact will mean that unemployment rates for america will actually fall. and then of course having more guest workers here will have public expenditure that is non-negative rather than positive, and having the economy bigger will have a negative effect on the prices that americans pay for imports and the prices that they receive for their exports, so the six effects are just the same as before except with opposite sides. now, now instead of the cost to american households of 80 billion, this program is showing a benefit to american households of 80 billion. but that's not all. you see, if you had a legalization program, if you had guest workers, then two things would happen: one thing that would happen would be that the guest workers would be more substitute will, there would be more like american workers. and they would have higher productivity. illegal workers are actually quite the word workers. they have quite low productivity. they are quite unreliable. and the reasons for that are fairly obvious. they are always looking over their shoulder, employers
so the occupational mix of fact will mean that unemployment rates for america will actually fall. and then of course having more guest workers here will have public expenditure that is non-negative rather than positive, and having the economy bigger will have a negative effect on the prices that americans pay for imports and the prices that they receive for their exports, so the six effects are just the same as before except with opposite sides. now, now instead of the cost to american...
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we must educate america. we must take america back. thank you very much. . . >> after the 2008 election, our friends on the left had some helpful advice for us. move to the left. it was similar to the advice after goldwater lost, after clinton won in 1992. the other team cheerfully advises us to stop talking about taxes, nobody cares about taxes and more. that reminds me of the scene late in committee were the bad guys as to the heroine, put down a gun and we will talk. [laughter] and that the hair -- and if the hero is a foolish, the movie goes on for 45 more minutes. [unintelligible] our coalition holds together because everybody here and everybody in washington, who becomes a tea party activists, are there around the table, for different reasons but they are all there because on the issue that news there but and that brings them to politics, they want one thing from the federal government, they want to be left alone. [applause] taxpayers, don't raise my taxes. businessmen and women, don't regulate my job in business out of existence
we must educate america. we must take america back. thank you very much. . . >> after the 2008 election, our friends on the left had some helpful advice for us. move to the left. it was similar to the advice after goldwater lost, after clinton won in 1992. the other team cheerfully advises us to stop talking about taxes, nobody cares about taxes and more. that reminds me of the scene late in committee were the bad guys as to the heroine, put down a gun and we will talk. [laughter] and...
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we are getting in that boat in the inner cities or rural america with medicare. it ought to give you some judgment about how much more you want the government to get involved in medicare. with medicaid, -- medicare, not medicaid -- one factor about money not being spent wisely in the united states is the statistic that, and you can get this from an annual study by dartmouth university, the upgraded every year. they have been doing this for two or three decades. if medicine costs were like a war from wisconsin over to washington state and from kansas north to canada, we would save 1/3 of our health care dollars. they would be in the medicare fund and make it last longer than it is. some of those are related to just simple things like how doctors practice medicine in iowa and do a good job of it. people in iowa are healthier than number. the doctor does not send it to the hospital at the job of a hat or a dozen specialists. those are things that really add up on the cost of money. getting back to what you said about taking care of the eight or 10 million people tha
we are getting in that boat in the inner cities or rural america with medicare. it ought to give you some judgment about how much more you want the government to get involved in medicare. with medicaid, -- medicare, not medicaid -- one factor about money not being spent wisely in the united states is the statistic that, and you can get this from an annual study by dartmouth university, the upgraded every year. they have been doing this for two or three decades. if medicine costs were like a war...
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privatize social security with all of the problems in america that was his number one goal that was so difficult to turnaround it was the right thing to do so the most difficult thing i have found is trying to work on a bipartisan basis to accomplish things. you can i do think is on a bipartisan basis if you have a president who does not want to and eight republicans and senate who goes along with anything he once and that has been extremely difficult to do provide try in this little c-span interview to be partisan but the american people deserve to know how difficult it has been these past years with the bush administration. ronald reagan is a pleasure to work with. i was not a leader but we watched, here is a man who had set ideas but when the country was in trouble they turned to tip o'neill and they say this will securities for 25 years but we don't have that same thing now. >>host: you have been characteristically candid but uncharacteristically blunt as you talk about george bush, president bush. you use the word liar a couple of times. what was the context? is that the indicatio
privatize social security with all of the problems in america that was his number one goal that was so difficult to turnaround it was the right thing to do so the most difficult thing i have found is trying to work on a bipartisan basis to accomplish things. you can i do think is on a bipartisan basis if you have a president who does not want to and eight republicans and senate who goes along with anything he once and that has been extremely difficult to do provide try in this little c-span...
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-- apps for america. what was time online u.s. where a developer recently took the data that the faa had put out and created an application that would allow you and i to map out from one city to another the average deily times of flights so we could make better decisions where we want to book. not only that but we issued a challenge to see ipos across the country for every state and local government to create a data.gov so that for the first time you will be able to now see what is happening across the transportation grid or for that matter broadband so you can actually think about comparing whether it is cellphone plans or thinking about where you have a broadband deployment and where you don't and what is the delta to applications being developed where the intersection of multiple data feeds allow us to see spikes or disparities in terms of what is happening as far as health outcomes or if we are looking at how we can address the toughest problems this country faces today. when it comes to broadband dep
-- apps for america. what was time online u.s. where a developer recently took the data that the faa had put out and created an application that would allow you and i to map out from one city to another the average deily times of flights so we could make better decisions where we want to book. not only that but we issued a challenge to see ipos across the country for every state and local government to create a data.gov so that for the first time you will be able to now see what is happening...
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this is america. i am not advocating a coup d'etat for a. [laughter] eighty educating your own kids in your own house. any other questions? thank you so much for coming [applause] >> you can learn more about our booktv programs and offers online. there you can five schedules of programs, video clips and upcoming book fairs and festivals. the kansas city public library in kansas city missouri is one hour. >> let me take my jacket off i cannot stand that he. [laughter] wyss what alike can xm. [laughter] what a great venue that you have this auditorium and it is a real pleasure to be here. my third time in 10 kansas city and each time i seem to enjoy it more and more. my brother howard was helping me out on this trip we went to the baseball game last night. it went 11 innings we did not stay the whole game but if you have not been to kauffman stadium lately to see the changes it is pretty cool. the stadium is great. bess truman was a big baseball fan and she was a sports fan in the house. a and as a kid she played a lot of sports but harry was
this is america. i am not advocating a coup d'etat for a. [laughter] eighty educating your own kids in your own house. any other questions? thank you so much for coming [applause] >> you can learn more about our booktv programs and offers online. there you can five schedules of programs, video clips and upcoming book fairs and festivals. the kansas city public library in kansas city missouri is one hour. >> let me take my jacket off i cannot stand that he. [laughter] wyss what alike...
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, faithful, accomplhed, nurturing, cing, loving, smart, strong and morrill face of black america. what a wonderful picture you have drawn for the world. what a wonderful story you are telling and what a beautiful portrait of love you will show the world. thank you for showing the world how love between a black man and woman can and should look through a few black men have the opportunity to see the waiter brought expresses his love for you, but he shows his respect for you the way he communicates with you, the way h alls you to become. through you black women see the way you do allhe same things for your husband. through you we see how you depend on and lean on each other. thank you. you and barack with so much history in the burdens of so many carried onour backs have given pride and hope to so many. thank you for that. because you have given so much too many i hope a pray that you feel and are able to reive interest and support of all the people you inspire. as you carry the burdens placed upon iou please know you are not alone. you and your beautiful family are thought of and p
, faithful, accomplhed, nurturing, cing, loving, smart, strong and morrill face of black america. what a wonderful picture you have drawn for the world. what a wonderful story you are telling and what a beautiful portrait of love you will show the world. thank you for showing the world how love between a black man and woman can and should look through a few black men have the opportunity to see the waiter brought expresses his love for you, but he shows his respect for you the way he...